US5104113A - Sheet material separating device having a pivotable separating member - Google Patents

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US5104113A
US5104113A US07/752,900 US75290091A US5104113A US 5104113 A US5104113 A US 5104113A US 75290091 A US75290091 A US 75290091A US 5104113 A US5104113 A US 5104113A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
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  • This invention relates to a sheet material separating device for separating sheet materials, cut sheet materials (leaf materials) such as transfer materials, photosensitive paper sheets, electrostatic recording paper sheets and printing paper sheets) set on a paper supply portion, for example, in a printer or a copying apparatus one by one and conveying them to a processing portion such as an image forming portion.
  • cut sheet materials such as transfer materials, photosensitive paper sheets, electrostatic recording paper sheets and printing paper sheets
  • the present invention relates to a sheet material separating device of a construction which has a sheet material conveying member for conveying sheet materials in a predetermined direction and a sheet material separating member urged against the surface of said sheet material conveying member with a predetermined pressure force and in which of two or more sheet materials whose leading end portions have entered between said two members due to the cooperation between said two members, the sheet material which is in direct contact with the sheet material conveying member is conveyed between the contact portions of the two members by the conveying force of the sheet material conveying member and the passage of the other sheet materials is discharged by the sheet material separating member, whereby the sheet materials are separated and conveyed one by one.
  • FIG. 8 of the accompanying drawings shows an example of the conventional sheet material separating device of the construction as described above
  • the reference numeral 1 designates a paper feeding and separating roller (hereinafter referred to as the "paper feeding roller") as a sheet material conveying member rotatively driven about a shaft 1a in a clockwise direction indicated by arrow.
  • This paper feeding roller 1 is a cut-away circular roller of D-shaped cross-section, and during non-feeding of paper, it stands by with its cut-away planar portion 1b facing downward, and is intermittently driven for one full rotation by each paper feeding signal.
  • the reference numeral 2 denotes an auxiliary roller supported coaxially with the paper feeding roller 1. This auxiliary roller 2 has a diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the paper feeding roller 1 and is freely rotatable relative to the shaft 1a.
  • the reference numeral 4 designates a separating unit as a sheet material separating member.
  • the separating unit 4 comprises a friction member 3 adhesively secured to a pedestal 4a, and is fixedly held on the upper surface of the inwardly extending fore end portion of a paper feed guide plate 5 having its fore end portion inwardly extending to below the paper feeding roller 1.
  • the guide plate 5 is supported for pivotal movement about a pivot shaft 5a, and is normally rotatively biased in a raising direction (a counter-clockwise direction) by a pull-up spring 6. By this rotative biasing force, the friction member 3 of the separating unit 4 is kept in pressure contact with the lower surface portion of the paper feeding roller 1 or the lower surface portion of the auxiliary roller 2 with a predetermined pressure force.
  • the reference numeral 7 denotes a sheet material cassette (only the fore end portion of which is shown) mounted on a cassette receptacle (not shown) below the paper feeding roller 1.
  • the reference character 7a designates a cassette box
  • the reference character 7b denotes a cassette intermediate plate having its fore end portion normally upwardly biased by a spring 7c
  • the letter P designates sheet materials supported on the cassette intermediate plate 7b and contained in the cassette box 7a.
  • the leading ends of the supported sheet materials P are positioned below the paper feeding roller 1, and the upper surface of the leading end portion of the uppermost one of the supported sheet materials P is kept in pressure contact with the lower surface portion of the paper feeding roller 1 or the lower surface portion of the auxiliary roller 2 by the upward biasing force of the spring 7c with a predetermined pressure force.
  • One full rotation intermittent driving of the paper feeding roller 1 in the clockwise direction is effected by a paper feeding signal and the peripheral surface 1c of the paper feeding roller 1 comes into contact with the upper surface of the leading end portion of the uppermost one of the supported sheet materials P, whereby a paying-away force acts on the uppermost sheet material, which is thus fed out of the cassette 7 to between the paper feeding roller 1 and the friction member 3 which is in pressure contact with the surface of the roller 1.
  • the uppermost sheet material thus fed out is conveyed between the contact portions of the paper feeding roller 1 and the friction member 3 by the rotational force of the paper feeding roller 1.
  • the sheet materials are separated one by one and conveyed to a sheet material processing portion such as an image forming portion through a sheet path formed by guide plates 5, 5A and 5B.
  • the paper feeding roller 1 when driven for one full rotation, is stopped from rotating in a rotational angle state in which the cut-away planar portion thereof faces downward, but until then, the leading end portion of the uppermost sheet material conveyed by the paper feeding roller 1 toward the sheet material processing portion through the sheet path formed by the guide plates 5, 5A and 5B is nipped between a pair of relay conveying rollers (not shown), and thereafter the conveyance of the sheet material is continuedly done by the conveying force of the pair of relay conveying rollers.
  • the trailing end portion of the sheet material passes in a pulling-out fashion between the auxiliary roller 2 and the friction member 3 while rotating the auxiliary roller 2 about the shaft 1a.
  • the auxiliary roller 2 serves to keep the paper feeding roller 1 apart from the friction member 3 so as not to contact with the sheet materials P when during non-feeding, the paper feeding roller 1 is being stopped from rotating in the rotational angle state in which the cut-away planar portion faces downward.
  • the present invention has as its object to provide a sheet material separating device of this type which is contrived so that even where the friction resistance between sheet materials P used is high and the force with which the leading end portions of a plurality of sheet materials wedge into the wedge-shaped space M between the paper feeding roller 1 and the friction member 3 is strong, the contact state between the paper feeding roller 1 and the friction member 3 is secured without the gap ⁇ being created, whereby ensuring the action of stably separating the sheet materials one by one to be maintained without the trouble of double feeding of the sheet materials.
  • the sheet separating device of the present invention has a sheet material conveying member for conveying sheet materials in a predetermined direction, and a sheet material separating member urged against the surface of said sheet material conveying member with a predetermined pressure force.
  • a sheet material conveying member for conveying sheet materials in a predetermined direction
  • a sheet material separating member urged against the surface of said sheet material conveying member with a predetermined pressure force.
  • the sheet material which is in direct contact with the sheet material conveying member is conveyed between the contact portions of said two members by the conveying force of the sheet material conveying member and the passage of the other sheet materials is precluded by the sheet material separating member, whereby the sheet materials are separated and conveyed one by one.
  • said sheet material separating member is provided for pivotal movement about an axis orthogonal to the direction of conveyance of the sheet materials and parallel to the direction of the surfaces of the sheet materials.
  • the sheet material separating member provided in pressure contact with the sheet material conveying member is made pivotable, whereby even where the friction resistance between the sheet materials used is high and the force with which the leading end portions of a plurality of sheet materials wedge into the wedge-shaped space formed by said two members becomes strong, the sheet material separating member pivots about said axis in conformity with the wedging force (although the position of the portion of contact of the sheet material separating member with the surface of the sheet material conveying member is changed by that pivotal movement), whereby the two members are kept in contact with each other without creating a gap therebetween. Accordingly, the trouble of double feeding of the sheet materials is prevented and the performance of stably separating the sheet materials one by one can always be maintained.
  • FIG. 1 is an illustration of an image forming apparatus to which the present invention is applied;
  • FIG. 2 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the essential portions of a first embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of a separating unit
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic view for illustrating the action of the separating unit when sheet materials are fed
  • FIG. 5 shows the whole of the separating unit of the first embodiment
  • FIG. 6 is a side view of the essential portions of a second embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a side view of the essential portions of a third embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of a sheet material separating device according to the prior art.
  • FIG. 9A illustrates the principle of separating sheet materials one by one
  • FIG. 9B illustrates the cause of the double feeding of sheet materials.
  • FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal cross-sectional view of an image recording apparatus (for example, a laser beam printer) 100 to which the present invention is applied.
  • an image recording apparatus for example, a laser beam printer
  • the laser beam printer 100 as the image recording apparatus, as shown in FIG. 1, has a cassette 103 containing sheet materials P therein, a paper feeding roller 1 for feeding the sheet materials P from the cassette 103, and register rollers 107 disposed downstream of the paper feeding roller 1 for synchronously conveying the sheet materials P. Disposed downstream of the register rollers 107 is an image forming portion 110 for forming images by a laser beam from a laser scanner portion 109. A fixating device 111 is disposed downstream of the image forming portion 110, and a discharged paper sensor 112 is disposed downstream of the fixating device 111.
  • a pair of conveying rollers 113 and a pair of paper discharge rollers 115 are disposed downstream of the discharged paper sensor 112, and a paper discharge tray 116 is disposed downstream of the pair of paper discharge rollers 115.
  • the laser scanner portion 109 is comprised of a laser unit 117 emitting a laser beam, and a polygon motor 119 for causing the laser beam from the laser unit 117 to scan.
  • the image forming portion 110 is comprised of a photosensitive drum 120, an exposure lamp 121, a primary charger 122, a developing device 123, a transfer charger 125 and a cleaner 126.
  • a separating unit 4 provided at a location opposed to the paper feeding roller 1 will now be described with reference to FIGS. 2-4.
  • FIG. 2 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the essential portions of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of the separating unit portion
  • FIG. 4 shows the whole of the sheet material separating device.
  • members and portions common to those in the device shown in FIG. 8 are given similar reference numerals and need not be described again.
  • the separating unit 4 is provided with downwardly protruding boss portions 4b provided at two locations on the back surface of the pedestal 4a thereof adjacent to the opposite ends thereof, and through-apertures 5b corresponding to the left and right downwardly protruding boss portions 4b of the separating unit 4 and provided at two left and right locations on the surface of the extended end portion of a paper feeding guide plate 5, the diameter of the through-apertures 5b being a little larger than the diameter of the boss portions 4b.
  • the left and right downwardly protruding boss portions 4b on the back surface of the separating unit 4 are fitted into the through-apertures 5b in the paper feeding guide plate 5 from above the surface of the extended end of the guide plate 5 to thereby support the separating unit 4 on the upper surface portion of the extended end of the paper feeding guide plate 5.
  • a balancer 4c is attached to the lower end of each of the left and right boss portions 4 b protruding downwardly from the through-apertures 5b by a screw 4d.
  • an equalize plate 8 Downstream of the boss portions 4b with respect to the direction of conveyance of the sheet materials, the fore end portion of an equalize plate 8 is inserted between the pedestal 4a of the separating unit 4 and the upper surface of the paper feeding guide plate 5, and the equalize plate 8 is fixed to the upper surface of the guide plate 5 by a screw 8a.
  • the separating unit 4 is pivotable in a clockwise direction or a counter-clockwise direction as indicated by arrow in FIG. 2 about the upper edge line 0 of the fore end surface of the equalize plate 8 which is an axis orthogonal to the direction of conveyance of the sheet materials and parallel to the direction of the surfaces of the sheet materials.
  • the paper feeding guide plate 5 having the separating unit 4 mounted and supported thereon as described above is pivotable about a pivot shaft 5a as in the device shown in FIG. 8, and is normally biased for pivotal movement in a raising direction, i.e., a counter-clockwise direction, by a pull-up spring 6. Accordingly, by this biasing force for pivotal movement, the surface of the friction member 3 of the separating unit 4 is kept in pressure contact with the lower surface portion of the paper feeding roller 1 or the lower surface portion of the auxiliary roller 2 with a predetermined pressure force.
  • the separating unit 4 When the paper feeding roller 1 is rotatively driven and the peripheral surface 1c thereof is in contact with the surface of the friction member 3 of the separating unit 4, the separating unit 4 is nipped between the equalize plate 8 and the paper feeding roller 1 while being subjected to the spring pressure of a spring (FIG. 8) and therefore, at that time, the contact point Q between the friction member 3 and the paper feeding roller 1 is on a straight line passing through a point 0 and the center S of the paper feeding roller 1.
  • the entire sheet material separating device is shown in FIG. 5, and it is the same as that shown in FIG. 8, except for the sheet separating portion.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration for illustrating the action of the separating unit 4 during paper feeding, and eraggeratingly shows some members.
  • the separating unit 4 is in a posture indicated by broken line in the initial state in which paper feeding is not effected.
  • sheet materials P having a high friction resistance therebetween are fed and the force with which the leading end portions of a plurality of sheet materials wedge into the wedge-shaped space M between the paper feeding roller 1 and the friction member 3 is strong, the leading end portions of said plurality of sheet materials apply a downward force to the separating unit 4.
  • that force does not act as a force which pushes down the paper feeding guide plate 5 about the pivot shaft 5a against the force of the spring 6, but acts as a force which pivotally moves the separating unit 4 about the axis 0 in a clockwise direction as indicated by solid line.
  • the separating unit 4 When the separating unit 4 is pivotally moved as indicated by said solid line, the contact point between the paper feeding roller 1 and the friction member 3 shifts from the position Q to the position R toward the downstream side with respect to the direction of conveyance and the contact between the paper feeding roller 1 and the friction member 3 is kept, so that the gap ⁇ as shown in FIG. 9B is not created therebetween. Accordingly, even if the sheet materials used are sheet materials having a high friction resistance therebetween, the trouble of double feeding of the sheet materials is prevented and the stable performance of separating the sheet materials one by one is always maintained.
  • the balancer 4c is for changing the natural frequency of the separating unit 4, and prevents the separating unit 4 from causing vibrations and producing a resonant sound during the paper feeding operation.
  • the friction member 3 is disposed on a line passing through the center S of the paper feeding roller 1 and the pivot O of the friction member.
  • the surface 3a of the friction member 3 which is in contact with the paper feeding roller 1 is a curved surface whose central portion is depressed relative to the upstream side end portion and the downstream side end portion of the sheet.
  • FIG. 6 A second embodiment will now be described with reference to FIG. 6, and this embodiment is the same as the embodiment of FIG. 1 in the construction of the entire image forming apparatus.
  • the separating unit 4 is held on a holder 40 which is supported on a support plate 42 for pivotal movement about the axis O of a shaft 41 parallel to the axis of the paper feeding roller 1, through the shaft 41.
  • the support plate 42 is upwardly biased toward the lower surface of the paper feeding roller 1 by a biasing member (not shown), and the surface of the friction member 3 of the separating unit 4 is urged against the lower surface portion of the paper feeding roller 1 with a predetermined pressure force.
  • the friction member 3 is disposed on a line passing through the center of the paper feeding roller 1 and the pivot O of the friction member 3.
  • This construction can also obtain an operational effect similar to that of the previous embodiment.
  • FIG. 7 A third embodiment is shown in FIG. 7, and this embodiment is the same as the embodiment of FIG. 1 in the construction of the entire image forming apparatus.
  • a downward fulcrum projection 4e which is in contact with the upper surface of the paper feeding guide plate 5 is integrally provided on the lower surface of the pedestal 4a of the separating unit 4, and the separating unit 4 is made pivotable about the contact point O between the lower end of the fulcrum projection 4e and the upper surface of the paper feeding guide plate 5.
  • the friction member 3 is disposed on a line passing throught the center of rotation of the paper feeding roller 1 and the pivot O of the friction member 3.
  • This construction can also obtain an operational effect similar to that of the first embodiment.
  • the present embodiment eliminates the equalize plate 8 and the set screw 8a therefore, and has the advantage that the number of parts can be decreased.
  • the sheet material conveying member is the feeding and separating roller
  • the present invention is also applicable to a paper feeding system having a feeding roller and a separating roller discretely from each other.
  • the sheet material conveying member is not limited to a rotatable roller, but may also be a belt member or a web member which is movable round.
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